A group of nursing students from the Salem Campus decided to give a little more of themselves to the patients at Akron Children’s Hospital. The students are part of Diane Hill’s pediatric nursing class who completed clinical studies at the hospital. On their own, the students purchased and donated items such as sleepers, socks, underwear and other clothing items. “My pediatric students are just so caring,” Hill shared. “What a great give-back from these students.” Cutline A: The BSN students who collected items for pediatric patients include (front, from left) Katelyn Bailey, ...

Bridging the field of early childhood literacy with child health and development, faculty member Elaine Thomas, MSN, RN, CNE, Senior Lecturer, is serving as co-investigator on a recently funded grant award to the Kent State University School of Information in partnership with the College of Nursing. Funded by a National Leadership Planning Grant for Libraries by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Project SHIELD (Supporting Healthy Infant Early Learning and Development) will investigate optimal ways to support families with children, ages 0-24 months, with early brain developm...

During the spring semester retreat on January 13, 2022, Kent State University College of Nursing faculty and staff added their voices to a new project entitled, Sacred Breath: Nurses Respond to Covid-19, presented by the Wick Poetry Center in collaboration with the Ohio Nurses Foundation (ONF). This project was born out of the increasing awareness at the beginning of the pandemic of the incredible distress healthcare workers face daily, especially those on the frontlines. The Wick Poetry Center worked through Susan Stocker, Ph.D., MSN, RN, Dean of the Ashtabula Campus of Kent State University ...

Kerry Myers, MSN, RN, Associate Lecturer in Nursing at Kent State University at Geauga, was nominated for the national 2021 DAISY Faculty Award and received an honorable mention for this honor during Kent State’s Fall BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) Convocation in December 2021. The DAISY Foundation developed this program to provide colleges and schools of nursing a national recognition program to show appreciation to faculty for their commitment and inspirational influence on their nursing students. Faculty members nominated for The DAISY Faculty Award are those who have made an impa...

Wow, 2020 was rough! Not only did it affect our everyday way of life and how we manage contagious viruses, but it also put our educational system on notice that we need to be flexible and able to change up our teaching methods on a dime. Luckily for nurses, flexibility is our middle name, and we can embrace new modalities both in our bedside practice as well as in our classrooms. We saw this happen in the early days of the pandemic. Nurse educators put their heads together to create meaningful assignments to fill the gap created by the loss of clinical practice for students. Some were better...